woman in the United Kingdom, by the BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour,. In 2015 the Health Service Journal ranked her as the most influential woman in the English NHS and 14th most influential person. In the 2009 New Year Honours Davies was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to medicine. Davies was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2002. She was awarded the Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh in 2017. In the 2020 New Year Honours, Davies became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal Family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB), for services to public health and research. On 5 March 2020, in an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, she received the award from the Prince of Wales. Personal life In 1974, Davies married Ralph Skilbeck, a diplomat; they divorced in 1982. She remarried in 1982; her second husband died later that year from leukaemia. In 1989, she married her third husband – the Dutch haematologist Willem H. Ouwehand, the leader of the UK's National Blood and Transplant research group and a professor of haematology at the University of Cambridge, with whom she has two daughters. References External links 1949 births Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath 20th-century English medical doctors 21st-century English medical doctors British haematologists Alumni of the University of Manchester Chief Medical Officers for England Living people English women medical doctors People from Birmingham, West Midlands Female Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century women physicians 21st-century women physicians Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century English women 20th-century English people 21st-century English women Members of the National Academy of Medicine WHO laureates